Rayleigh's theory of scattering, published in 1871, was the first correct explanation of why the sky is blue.
Rayleigh of course was correct and succeeded, with considerable difficulty, in isolating the gas.
Rayleigh was a modest and generous man. He donated the proceeds of his Nobel Prize to the University of Cambridge to build an extension to the Cavendish laboratories.
The Right Honourable John William Strutt, 3rd BaronRayleigh (12 November 1842–30 June 1919) was a British physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.
Strutt was born in Langford Grove, Essex on November 12, 1842.
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